Select the option that correctly expresses the given sentence in passive voice. I will never overlook this creativity.
- (a)This creativity will never be overlooked by me.
- (b)This creativity will be overlooked by me.
- (c)This creativity will being overlooked by me.
- (d)This creativity will not never be overlooked by me.
Answer
Why
Correct — A. The active verb is will overlook — a modal followed by the bare infinitive — so the passive has to be will be overlooked.
The object of the active sentence, this creativity, moves to the front as the new subject, and the doer follows at the end as by me.
The adverb never keeps its mid position: after the modal, before be. That gives "This creativity will never be overlooked by me" — option (a).
Why the others are wrong
- (b)This creativity will be overlooked by me. — Drops the negative. never is part of what the original sentence says, and without it this reads as a promise to overlook the creativity — the opposite meaning.
- (c)This creativity will being overlooked by me. — will being is not an English verb form. A modal takes the bare infinitive, so it must be will be overlooked; being follows only am, is, are, was or were.
- (d)This creativity will not never be overlooked by me. — not never stacks two negatives in one verb phrase, which standard English does not allow. Either will not be overlooked or will never be overlooked, not both.
Concept
The future passive is built to a fixed template: will + be + past participle.
The tense sits in will, so be never changes shape, and the participle carries the meaning — overlook becomes overlooked.
Two things swap places around it. The active object becomes the passive subject, and the active subject becomes the agent, introduced by by and put in the object case, so I becomes by me.
Adverbs of frequency such as never, always and often sit between the modal and be, which is the detail a setter uses to separate two otherwise identical options.
The four options here differ by one element each — a missing adverb, an impossible verb form, a doubled negative. Compare them against each other rather than translating the sentence from scratch.
Key facts
- Simple future passive is will + be + past participle.
- The agent takes the object case after by, so I becomes by me.
- Mid-position adverbs such as never and always go after the modal and before be.
- Standard English does not allow not and never in the same verb phrase.
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Common traps
- Losing never in the conversion, which flips the meaning of the sentence
- Writing will being or will been after a modal instead of will be
The active sentence is given and the four passives differ in a single word, so the decision is a verb-form check rather than a translation. English Q.19 of this paper asks the passive of a question, where the interrogative word order is the point being tested.
Related PYQs
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